Colt National Match Serial Number C188041
-This National Match was furnished with a new safety device
(Swartz Safety), manufactured on November 18, 1937 and was a single gun shipment to Stambaugh Thompson Hardware Co., Youngstown, Ohio on November 23,
1937.

Colt National Match Serial Number C188041
- Slide is numbered to the frame.

Notice that a standard feature of the
National Match is that the mainspring housing is not fitted
with a lanyard loop.

Colt National Match Serial Number C188041
left side.

Original National Match barrel marked "COLT
45 AUTO MATCH" with "MB" in a circle on the left
barrel lug.

Small "0" on the forward top part of the
polished chamber.

Match Grade Barrel with some additional
markings. Notice the small number "2" on the polished side
of the barrel chamber.

Original National Match barrel marked "S"
laying down on the right barrel lug.

National Match slide C188041 has plunger for
Swartz Safety (above). National Match slide C188054 (below)
was made without the Swartz safety and does not have the
plunger milled in to the underside of the slide. Each
pre-WWII National Match pistol had a polished firing pin
housing.

View of Swartz Safety on National Match
frame of C188041 (above). Safety hole is located almost
on top of the stamped "G". Compare to National Match
frame of C188054 (below), which was made without the
Swartz Safety.

Disconnector and top of frame with "G" mark
from C188054. Note: No Swartz Safety.